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  “You have an implant?” he murmured.

  She nodded. Pregnancy was a slim option for her, but the implants also controlled disease as well.

  She felt his hand slide over her ass and down her hip. It moved under her, and she felt his fingers working at the button and zipper of her trousers.

  Then his hand was inside her panties, between her legs, rubbing.

  “Oh.” She arched.

  His fingers rubbed against her. “So wet for me, Captain.” He stroked her clit ruthlessly. “Gonna eat you first. Need to taste you.”

  Oh. God.

  His weight lifted off her, and then he pulled her up on her knees. His hands stroked over her ass, sliding her trousers off, and then her panties.

  He pulled her back to his chest. His breath was hot on her ear. “Do you know how many times I’ve imagined you under my mouth?”

  She jerked, feeling flames licking at her. No one had ever talked to her like this.

  “How many times I’ve jerked off in my bed, imagining you naked and writhing under me?”

  She shoved back against him. “Then put your mouth on me, Rahia.”

  He pushed her forward onto her hands and knees. His big hands shaped her bare ass, nudging her thighs apart. She felt the bed move, and then she felt his hot breath on her thighs. Everything inside her clenched.

  When his mouth hit her flesh, Kate cried out. He started licking her, like he was starving. He gripped her thighs and she heard a growl.

  “You’re dripping, babe.” Then he pulled her back harder against his face. “Taste so fucking good.”

  His voice vibrated against her and she writhed. He licked and sucked, and small cries ripped from her throat.

  “I’ll get addicted to this,” he said.

  She felt a thick finger slide inside and she moaned. He kept licking her, alongside that thick finger stretching her. He pulled it out and two fingers worked back inside her.

  “Tight. You’ll feel good stretched around my cock, babe.”

  She pushed back against him. “Manu.”

  “Sweetest sound, my name on your lips.”

  Everything inside her felt hot, and her muscles were trembling. Her climax was almost on top of her, threatening like a massive storm.

  His fingers thrust deep inside her. His tongue flicked over her clit. “That’s it, Kate. Come on my face.”

  When he sucked again, she screamed and splintered apart. Kate rode through the waves of pleasure, feeling as though she were breaking into pieces.

  But Manu’s strength held her in place.

  Manu’s cock was so hard it hurt.

  He needed to be inside Kate. He needed that more than he needed anything else.

  She was collapsed on her belly, panting, but he pulled her hips up and flicked open his trousers.

  “Gonna fuck you now, babe.”

  She pushed against him. “Good.”

  A straight talker, his Kate. He cupped her ass, and she looked back over her shoulder. Their gazes locked.

  He gripped his cock and stroked it. There was raw hunger in those blue eyes of hers. Damn, his woman was wild for him.

  He leaned over and gave her a hot kiss, sucking on her bottom lip. She thrust back against him, her tongue sliding to tangle with his.

  Then he nudged her legs apart and rubbed his cock against where she was so wet and swollen.

  She whimpered and shimmied her hips.

  “Hold still,” he ordered.

  “Inside me,” she demanded.

  “I’m coming, babe.” He started to push inside her.

  “Oh, God.” Her back arched, and again her gaze found his.

  Manu pushed his cock inside her, inch by painstaking inch. He was a big guy, so he knew to take his time. He savored the hot feel of her. So damn tight.

  “Oh, my God.” Her breath sawed in and out of her chest. Manu pulled back, and then slammed inside her once more, sinking deep and rocking her forward on the bed.

  She was stretched tight around him and he’d never felt anything so good.

  “Say my name, Kate.”

  “Manu. God. Move.”

  He leaned down, pressing a kiss to the center of her spine. Then he started thrusting, hard and rough. He wanted her to feel it. To feel him.

  She was making small, sexy cries, each one of them driving him crazy, and he kept up his heavy thrusts. He grasped her shoulders to get more leverage and picked up the pace.

  “Best fucking sight in the world, me pumping into you from behind.”

  She moaned.

  Manu wanted to hear her come again, and he could feel his own orgasm barreling down on him. “Touch yourself,” he ground out.

  Instantly, she lowered her head to the bed and moved a hand beneath her.

  “Are you rubbing that sweet clit?”

  “Yes.”

  “You don’t come until I tell you.”

  She stiffened. “Manu—”

  He growled “We come together. Hold it.”

  “I…I can’t.”

  “Keep your sweet ass up, Kate. Take me and hold on.”

  She lifted her ass. “Manu.”

  “Nearly there, babe.” He leaned over her, sinking his cock inside her as deep as he could. So. Damn. Good. “Come now.”

  She tensed and her body clamped down on his cock. As he groaned, she screamed, and he sank his teeth into her neck.

  She bucked against him, and Manu roared as his release tore through his body. Fuck. Fuck.

  They collapsed on the bed, and Manu fell to the side, pulling Kate close into him, molding her sweaty body to his. She didn’t move, lying completely lax. He buried his face in the curve of her neck.

  Manu had been with plenty of women before, but nothing had ever been like this.

  He’d also always had something to fight for—his brothers, his friends, innocent kids here in the Enclave.

  But now, he had something else. His reward for the fighting and for the loss. A woman who came alive only for him.

  A woman he’d happily lose his other leg for in order to keep safe. His.

  Chapter Eleven

  Kate woke to something bumping into her. The room was dark, and a warm body was pressed against her.

  Manu. Manu Rahia was in her bed.

  “Fuck, make the pain stop.”

  His agonized voice cut through the quiet. Her heart clenched. He was having a nightmare.

  He thrashed again and she reached for him. “Manu?”

  A big arm swung at her and she ducked it. She threw herself on top of him, straddling his chest. She squeezed her knees into his sides. His chest was heaving.

  “Manu? It’s Kate. Wake up.”

  He stilled beneath her. She reached over and flicked on the bedside lamp.

  They both blinked at the sudden brightness, and Manu watched her with dark, fathomless eyes.

  Kate studiously ignored the fact that she was naked. She’d never slept naked in her life. “You with me?”

  He nodded. Kate slid off him and tugged the sheet up. He scraped a hand through his hair.

  “Is this common?” she asked.

  He shrugged a big shoulder. “It happens.”

  “Have you talked to anyone about it?”

  His face turned mutinous. “It’s a few nightmares. To be expected.”

  “Manu, what you went through was tough. There are counselors here at the Enclave—”

  “Don’t want to talk about it.”

  “Then talk to me.”

  A muscle ticked in his jaw. “No.”

  Hurt arrowed into her heart. “Right. So, it’s okay for you to prod at me, but you get to keep all your secrets locked away.” She rolled to the side of the bed. “Got it.”

  He grabbed her, yanking her back onto the bed. “I…I haven’t talked about it. Ever.”

  His voice was raw and full of pain, and her heart clenched. “Your brothers?”

  He shook his head. “I’ve told them bits and pieces.”
r />   She cupped his jaw. “I understand not wanting to be weak or show any vulnerabilities. I’ve made a life of doing that.” She released a breath. “I had a mission go wrong. Right before I came to work at the Enclave, just before the alien invasion. I lost three good, bright, young soldiers.”

  “Ah, that’s why what happened to Kendra has hit you so hard,” he murmured.

  “Losing people is never easy. Just like losing a piece of yourself is never easy.” She stroked his jaw. “I talked to the Army therapists. If I hadn’t, I think that ball of hurt, rage, and guilt inside me would have grown.”

  “I don’t let it.”

  “You might keep it locked up, Manu, but it’s doing damage.”

  He pulled in a deep, shuddering breath and was quiet for a long moment. Kate was almost certain she’d lost him.

  “We were still at Blue Mountain Base. We were on a recon mission. Just supposed to scout out an area in the city where there’d been increased alien activity.”

  She stroked his shoulder and stayed quiet. She hated the haunted look on his face.

  “Fuck.” He took another deep, shuddering breath. “It was a trap. They’d lured us there, and they’d literally set up traps in the ground.”

  “Traps?”

  “Like bear traps. Huge, spiked traps made of bone and metal. We were engaged by a group of raptors, fighting our way out.” He shook his head. “Hell, Hemi was laughing. Then I stepped on one of those goddamned traps.”

  Kate moved, stroking his back.

  “The pain was indescribable. I was screaming, the agony was so extreme. More raptors were coming, and I yelled at my squad to leave.” Dark eyes met hers, boiling with old horror. “I could see my leg was stuck. The teeth of the trap had cut right through, just above the knee. Blood was pouring everywhere. I kept firing on the raptors. I wanted to hold them off until Tane and the others escaped.”

  He’d kept fighting. Was thinking of others even when he was so badly hurt. That was Manu. Loyal, protective, and caring.

  “They refused to leave me.” His voice broke. “They pumped me full of drugs, got me out, and we all kept firing until we made it back to the quadcopter.”

  He’d survived, but the aliens had still scored a hit and left him with scars.

  “You amaze me, Manu Rahia.”

  He jolted. “Why?”

  “You survived a nightmare that would have dragged so many under, and here you are, still doing what you can at the Enclave to keep people safe.”

  “I still have nightmares, Kate. I still get so damn angry I want to punch things. Sometimes I’m touchy and mouth off.”

  “No one said you had to be perfect.”

  He scowled.

  “You’re the oldest brother, so I guess wanting to be perfect and strong for everyone is a character flaw.”

  His scowl deepened.

  “After everything that happened, you still get up every day and go to work at the range. You are a damn hero, Manu.” She cupped his cheeks and made him look at her. “And you never have to hide what you’re feeling from me. In here, you can show me when you’re hurting or angry.”

  Manu sucked in a deep breath. “You gonna show me your underbelly, too?”

  She wrinkled her nose. “Not much to show. You’re going to wake up one day and realize I’m boring and sensible.”

  He pushed her back on the bed, covering her with his body and nudging her legs apart. “Never.”

  God, she loved the feel of him. “You’ll see. I’m boring and not sexy, and—” Her words turned to a choked cry as he slid his cock inside her.

  He pumped into her, his thrusts relentless. “There is nothing boring about you, Kate. And I’ll never get tired of burying my cock inside your hot, sexy body.”

  Sensations swamped her, every nerve alive. “Manu.”

  “There it is. I will never, ever get tired of hearing you call out my name just like that.” His voice lowered. “Only thing better is when you say it while you’re coming.”

  His words sent her over the edge, and Kate gave him what he wanted.

  Kate woke with her nose pressed against a wall of hard muscle covered in bronze skin.

  She froze. Oh, God. Everything they’d done to each other during the night crowded in her head. She shivered. After that mind-blowing first time, they’d looked at each other…and done it again—twice. Then once more, right after his nightmare.

  Kate had never had sex like this before.

  “Kate.” A sexy husky rumble.

  “Hey,” she murmured.

  The arm wrapped around her waist tightened. “Whatever you’re thinking, stop it.”

  She flicked her gaze up to his face. Apart from slumberous, dark eyes, he looked alert. “I’m not—”

  “You’re freaking out.”

  “Get out of my head,” she muttered.

  He reached out, sliding a hand through her hair and pushing it back. Then he pressed a gentle kiss to her lips. “We had sex. Really great sex. Best I’ve ever had.”

  She felt the burn of heat injected into her cheeks. “Oh.”

  He smiled that sexy, white smile of his. “And we’re going to do it again. Lots.”

  “A bit presumptuous.”

  “Babe, you came alive for me. I’ve never had a woman so hungry for my cock.”

  She frowned. “Don’t be crude.”

  “Babe. It was hot.”

  Kate felt embarrassed. She’d never been like this with a man before. Then again, she’d never been with a man like Manu before.

  She quickly moved to get off the bed, but an arm wrapped around her, and tightened under her breasts. His skin was shades darker than hers, and she studied the sexy veins running up his strong forearm.

  “Manu, I have to get to work.”

  “We have over an hour until our shifts start.”

  She felt him move in behind her. He got on his knees, pulled her back to his chest. She felt the broad head of his cock press against her ass. His hand moved down her body, his fingers spreading over her belly.

  Then she felt Manu go still. “My Kate’s got a naughty side.”

  She frowned. “What?” She looked up and saw him looking at her nightstand.

  Where the vibrator that Liberty had given her was sitting.

  Oh, God. “Um…”

  He reached around her and grabbed it. Her belly clenched.

  “Show me how you like to use it.”

  She cleared her throat. “I just got it. I haven’t really…” She was an adult. She shouldn’t feel like a blushing teen caught by her parents.

  “You been feeling the need for some relief lately?” His breath was warm on her neck.

  She leaned into him and watched as he stroked the vibrator down the middle of her belly. He flicked it on and then ran it between her thighs. She jerked against him.

  He pressed it hard against her clit and she cried out. Then he ran the toy along her slick lips.

  “Fuck, I need to see your face.” He spun her around and pushed her back on the bed. Then he was pulling her legs apart.

  With a focused look on his face, he went back to work, sliding the vibrator against her. Soon she was writhing. It felt so good.

  “You are so damn gorgeous,” he said.

  Kate thought the same about him. Big, beautiful, and all that smooth, brown skin. All of it naked and focused on her.

  He moved the vibrator and pressed the thick head of it against her. Her lips parted, her hips lifted.

  Manu slowly slid the toy inside her.

  She moaned. She felt so full, and she still felt the burn of having had him numerous times during the night. It had been a long time since she’d had sex and she was a bit tender.

  “Sore?” he asked.

  “A little.”

  “Want me to stop?”

  “Hell, no.”

  A warm laugh. Manu moved the vibrator slowly, but firmly, inside her. Then his finger slid down her belly and started strumming her clit.
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  She moaned. “Manu.”

  “Right here, babe.” He increased his tempo. “Damn, could watch you all day.”

  Kate was getting close, all the sensations in her swirling faster and faster. When he pulled the vibrator out of her, she let out a cry.

  “Easy.” He threw the toy on the floor and yanked her up. “When you come, it’s gonna be on my cock.”

  Then he shifted to the edge of the bed, his feet flat on the ground and pulled her to straddle his hips. He pushed her down, his cock sliding inside her with a hard thrust.

  She cried out, her hands gripping his shoulders.

  “Ride me,” he ground out, his fingers digging into her hips.

  Her body moved of its own accord. Up, down. She needed him. She needed this.

  “Look.” His voice was guttural.

  She followed his gaze down to look where they were joined. To where he was rubbing her swollen clit and where his cock was lodged deep inside her.

  Oh, God. Everything inside her gathered like a storm, contracting to a hard point in her belly. Then the explosion happened, and she came.

  As Kate arched her back and cried out, Manu gripped her hips and slammed her down. He groaned out his own release, spilling inside her.

  She collapsed against him, cheek pressed to his shoulder. They stayed there, waiting for their heart beats to slow.

  Again, she’d just proved that she was hot for him. She wasn’t sure whether she should be proud or embarrassed. “I didn’t think we were supposed to have sex like this.”

  He made a rumbling noise she took to mean was a question.

  “Sex like we’re twenty.”

  “This is better than sex when you’re twenty, impatient, and clueless.”

  Amen to that. She lifted her head. “I want to see Kendra before we head back out to tackle more landmines.” She tried to move off Manu.

  He held her still, one big hand stroking her back. “She’ll be okay, Kate. We’ll see to it.”

  She peered at those dark, velvet eyes. “You’ll talk to her?”

  “Shit.” Manu pulled in a breath. “Yeah.”

  Kate could see that talking about losing his leg wasn’t going to be easy for him, but that he’d do it. For her.

  “It’ll be a tough road for Kendra, but she’ll make it.”